ext3 will run FSCK on all filesystems, in reality, becuase it have a
threshold _run FSCK if system did not checked more than XXX days_ - so (in
reality) we see fsck's all the time for ext3.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronny Egner" <Ronny.Egner@(protected)>
To: "Martin Klier" <martin.klier@(protected)>
Cc: <suse-oracle@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] File System Advice for Oracle 10g on SLES9


Martin Klier wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
>
>
>>I am trying to set up Oracle10g on a SLES9. Installation went OK on a
>>REISERFS partition.
>
>
>>What filesystem would you suggest ?
>
>
>>As I sait, currently, we are using reiserfs, but performance is
>>abismally bad: even a basic P IV pc with a IDE disk performs much
better...
>
>
> I'd suggest ext3 for rdbms installation, and a non-journaling FS for the
data
> files. Journaling isn't desired for oracle data files, since oracle's
cache
> handling was made for working on its own.
>
> Why ext3? I never lost a ext3 FS, but I lost more than one ReiserFS
without
> knowing why two years ago.

Ack


> Why ext2? Simple, supported, working over years.

How do you handle system crashes on a > 500 GB filesystem ?
You do *not* want to perform an fsck on a large filesystem....


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